W. Davis Traven was born at 66° 0′ 0″ N, 34° 37′ 0″ E and spent much of his early childhood there. In his teens he began publishing the slapstick-nihilist periodical Ø, which is still published diurnally in Paraguay. Currently he is head of surgery and poet laureate for the seizure ward at Yuasa-Exide General. Traven has just released his second memoir, Donde Son Las Dos Cucarachas from which this excerpt is reprinted without permission.
